Today, I quit my job as a barista for one of our competitors with a couple of bucks more an hour. Two hours after I'd handed in my resignation, my boss approached me just to let me know that if I hadn't resigned, I would've been offered my own café. FML

Also, if he really wanted to offer you your own cafe, wouldn't he definitely do it when he discovered you were unhappy? There's no difference between this and when your company offers you more money to stay. Except this guy is lying.

Exactly what I wanted to say. You have no proof about his so-called plans for your own café, and the chances that your boss is a sadist are way higher than you getting your own café. Still, it may be true, but then, still nobody can conclude from that to be loyal to your badly-paying employer to the grave just because you might get lucky one day. That's what they all count on, and that's the way the economy works: Empty promises (innuendos really) and low salary. You did the right thing, just follow your heart. If you had gotten your own café, you'd have had badly-paid employees under you, so the overall atmosphere would have been the same. My advice: Try to open your own, independent café with some unique, attractive aspect. I generally prefer those to the chains.

Well, if the pay was only marginally better at another job rather than significantly, he/she would not have quit, so I guessed. Also, I assumed the boss to be an arse because in my experience this is usually more often true than not (must be a career hunger thing), also, if he were the opposite of an arse, he'd still have offered the own café anyway. It would have been the better offer and a massive proof of trust, and as a boss I would have done so with a good employee.

Like...
1. Understanding boss.. Mine is wonderful. I'd take a pay cut to stay on his team.
2. Benefits like PTO, medical, etc
3. Schedule/flexibility
4. Distance to home and other commute concerns
5. Potential for advancement
6. Training.. Mine is paying for my masters degree
7. Coworkers. Working with people you
hate sucks.

To name a few things beyond the paycheck that I consider vital aspects of a job.

Thank you captain obvious, for telling us that. But given the fact that he wrote that he quit his job because of the wage, then your comment is just retarded. Also the list of shitty reasons why you chose to give head to your boss is also stupid. Who says that the next boss won't be the same or even worse with information that is given to you?

I don't know who voted this down, that's exactly what most companies do. It's more cost effective to try and keep a really good employee than to train new ones after they've left. The fact that they didn't even try to persuade OP to stay implies that they were just trying to rub his/her nose in it and try to impose guilt.